“A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared.”
The term is a reference to Judas Iscariot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Iscariot
💀 Florida’s runaway covid spike hits record high. Governor refuses to mandate masks https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243833302.html
💀 The US had just hit a single-day record for new coronavirus cases. More than half the states were seeing increases in the rate of new cases. Multiple states were dealing with record numbers of coronavirus hospitalizations. Texas had announced hours earlier that it had to shut down in-person service at its bars again.
And Vice President Mike Pence told Americans that things were going well.
At a Friday press briefing by the White House’s coronavirus task force, the first in nearly two months, task force leader Pence painted a rosy picture of a country steadily getting safer and back to normal.
It was a picture at odds with reality. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/fact-check-pence-briefing-coronavirus-june/index.html
💀 Measures to protect Trump from coronavirus scale up even as he seeks to move on (CNN 6/26/20) https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-protocols/index.html
In a list of things Americans should do to protect themselves and others against coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence on Friday mentioned everything health officials say Americans should do — hand washing, avoiding touching the face, disinfecting frequently.
He pointedly did not mention two of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main pieces of advice— wearing face masks and social distancing.
Pence was speaking at the first news conference of the White House Pandemic Task Force has held since April 27. He did not wear a mask during the news conference. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/26/pence-mention-face-mask-distancing-coronavirus-protection/3265351001/
A preliminary study has identified brain conditions such as strokes and psychosis in some patients hospitalized with bad cases of COVID-19.
The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, is the first systematic review of suspected brain complications since the coronavirus swept the world, its authors said.
The study was small and may show only a correlation between the conditions. But researchers said it provided important data for future research. https://www.businessinsider.com/severe-covid-19-linked-to-strokes-and-psychosis-preliminary-study-2020-6
On Facebook, she denounced a Starbucks worker who asked her to wear a mask. It backfired: He received over $32,000 in tips. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/06/26/facebook-she-denounced-starbucks-worker-who-asked-her-wear-mask-it-backfired-he-got-26000-tips/
Hours after Gov. Jay Inslee (D) ordered Washington state residents to cover their faces in public, a Republican sheriff in a rural southwestern swath of the state suggested they should be doing no such thing.
“Here’s what I say,” Lewis County Sheriff Robert Snaza told the crowd outside a church Tuesday, carrying a megaphone and sporting his green and beige uniform but no face mask. “Don’t be a sheep.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/26/sheriffs-mask-covid/
“A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared.”
The term is a reference to Judas Iscariot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Iscariot
8AM MDT, tomorrow morning, 27th
💀 Florida’s runaway covid spike hits record high. Governor refuses to mandate masks https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243833302.html
💀 The US had just hit a single-day record for new coronavirus cases. More than half the states were seeing increases in the rate of new cases. Multiple states were dealing with record numbers of coronavirus hospitalizations. Texas had announced hours earlier that it had to shut down in-person service at its bars again.
And Vice President Mike Pence told Americans that things were going well.
At a Friday press briefing by the White House’s coronavirus task force, the first in nearly two months, task force leader Pence painted a rosy picture of a country steadily getting safer and back to normal.
It was a picture at odds with reality. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/fact-check-pence-briefing-coronavirus-june/index.html
💀 Measures to protect Trump from coronavirus scale up even as he seeks to move on (CNN 6/26/20) https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-protocols/index.html
9:30PM, MDT, tonight, 27th
In a list of things Americans should do to protect themselves and others against coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence on Friday mentioned everything health officials say Americans should do — hand washing, avoiding touching the face, disinfecting frequently.
He pointedly did not mention two of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main pieces of advice— wearing face masks and social distancing.
Pence was speaking at the first news conference of the White House Pandemic Task Force has held since April 27. He did not wear a mask during the news conference. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/26/pence-mention-face-mask-distancing-coronavirus-protection/3265351001/
A preliminary study has identified brain conditions such as strokes and psychosis in some patients hospitalized with bad cases of COVID-19.
The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, is the first systematic review of suspected brain complications since the coronavirus swept the world, its authors said.
The study was small and may show only a correlation between the conditions. But researchers said it provided important data for future research. https://www.businessinsider.com/severe-covid-19-linked-to-strokes-and-psychosis-preliminary-study-2020-6